My entire high school career, peer review was always a way of picking out the little things, rather the local edits, in a paper. I’ve always found it easy when it came to peer review to then just sit there and pick out the grammatical errors rather than focus on what the topic was, whether evidence was making sense or not, etc. However, changing this perspective of peer reviewing from local to global edits seems to help give me a better understanding of what I am writing about as well. I feel as though global editing will also give help me when reviewing my own paper, looking back I will know what evidence fits and what evidence may not, where it is needed, etc. It has also given me a better understanding of what I should be writing about as well. Global edits are also the reviews we as students typically need the most, rather than going back and seeing grammatical errors that we could have easily changed when we went to read through our papers. By allowing someone to check the structure of our paper rather than the small easy to find errors, we can then focus on writing and fixing the important parts of our formal essay. Overall, I would prefer to receive and give global edits on papers rather than local edits so that way I can focus on the big picture rather than the small points I can go back and fix quickly.
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